Star Wars: Padme Escapes

An all-Star Wars week of updates! Having worked on a few Star Wars RPG projects, as mentioned in posts below, I got the itch to do something a little less...spot illustration-y. Spot illustrations are what they are--small, often minimal background, typically character shots or simple narratives. They don't really lend themselves well to more involved paintings. So around the end of last year I started playing around with some ideas for doing a non-commissioned Star Wars piece. Uncommissioned works tend to be done in and around paying jobs, or during a break between the end of one job and the start of another. I worked on it and finished it right around the time of New York Comic-Con in February. I had an easel behind my 1/2 table, which isn't much for displaying larger works, and so half the day I'd toss up this Star Wars painting, the other half of the day I'd put up my Batman and Rorschach pieces.

Having some time to sit with it throughout the weekend, by the end of the show I decided it wasn't done, despite being signed and with a nice layer of Galkyd over it to seal it. So some time after the con I did some digital playing around with the scan I had. Basically all the foreground environment I was unsatisfied with. So I re-imagined it and got back to work, then shelved it, then took it out and continued, then shelved it...until finally I finished it again.

16x24" Oils on paper over masonite

Perhaps just here is where you might expect me to post a scan of the image before re-working it. Well, if I still thought it was worth showing, I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of repainting it! Let it suffice to say that all the foreground rock, sand, the dead battle droid and his gun, the clone trooper in the foreground, and even the sand and rock-wall under and behind Padme were all repainted. Before, that trooper and droid weren't there, there was no desert foliage, and rather than rock, those shapes were entirely sand dune. If you happened to see me at NY Comic-Con, you got to see it the old way. If you'd like to see a zoomed-in version, I'd direct you to the painting's page.